Category Archives: Future of Photo Equipment

After the RE-35 April Fool’s prank, a group of students from Hongik University designed another “digital film” concept: While we are on the digital film topic, you can read few interesting comments from someone who used to work for Silicon Film back in 2001 in this thread (search for Jon). I am expecting/hoping Jon will share some more […]

Updated – this is a 100% hoax since the camera will be “shipped” a week form Friday – on April 1st… This video describes “The Invisible Camera” which is a see-through plastic box with a pinhole that can completely isolate the film from the ambient light and take a correct exposure. What do you think, it this real or […]

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have created the world’s smallest camera with dimensions of 1 x 1 x 1 mm. The camera has 62,500px resolution, can take 250x250px images and is very cheap to produce.

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland created a panoptic camera that resembles a fly’s eye – it has 100 cameras and the combined image is rendered on a computer providing a 360° view in 3D. The camera is also able to measure the distance to an objects and can potentially be used in the car, movies and video games […]

Interesting news reported by BBC – MIT created a camera that can produce an image of an object that is not directly visible by sending a laser beam and creating an image from the  bounced light of the object: “The prototype uses an ultra-short high-intensity burst of laser light to illuminate a scene. The device constructs a basic […]

InfoTrends published a report (digital camera market forecast for Western Europe) in which they outline that connectivity will play a major role in the camera development over the next 5 years: “Sharing images instantly with friends and family is becoming a more important aspect of photography. Smartphones currently provide this ability, but digital cameras generally do not. […]